ROME (AP) 鈥� Pope Francis had coffee and was reading newspapers Saturday after an alarming setback in his two-week recovery from double pneumonia: Doctors had to put him on noninvasive mechanical ventilation following a coughing fit in which he inhaled vomit that needed to then be extracted. Doctors said it would take a day or […]
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) 鈥� A funeral service was held in Kyiv on Friday for a U.S. Marine Corps veteran killed while serving alongside Ukrainian forces. Family and friends said 21-year-old Ethan Hertweck had given his life fighting for freedom. Hertweck, from California, traveled to Ukraine soon after Russia launched its full-scale invasion of the country […]
MOSCOW (AP) 鈥� Russia has offered the United States to restore direct air links between the two countries during the latest round of consultations with Washington, the Russian Foreign Ministry said Friday. Russian and U.S. diplomats met in Istanbul on Thursday to discuss normalizing the operation of their respective embassies that has been crippled by […]
BANGKOK (AP) 鈥� Shares retreated Friday in Asia, with benchmarks in Japan, Hong Kong and South Korea falling more than 2% after Wall Street indexes fell sharply on doubts over the frenzy around artificial-intelligence technology. President Donald Trump 鈥檚 decision to push ahead with 25% tariffs on imports from Mexico and Canada and to double […]
MOSCOW (AP) 鈥� Boris Spassky, a Soviet-era world chess champion who lost his title to American Bobby Fischer in a legendary 1972 match that became a proxy for Cold War rivalries, died on Thursday in Moscow. He was 88. The death of the one-time chess prodigy was announced by the International Chess Federation, the game’s […]
BASANKUSU, Congo (AP) 鈥� Hundreds of people have tested positive for malaria in northwest Congo as health officials try to understand what may be behind a surge of illnesses that has surpassed 1,000 cases and killed at least 60 people. The World Health Organization said that while malaria 鈥� a mosquito-borne disease 鈥� is prevalent […]
ISTANBUL (AP) 鈥� Russian and U.S. diplomats held talks in Istanbul on Thursday to discuss normalizing the operation of their respective embassies after years expelling each others’ diplomats. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that the talks in Istanbul followed an understanding reached during President Donald Trump’s call with Russian President Vladimir Putin and talks between […]
BRUSSELS (AP) 鈥� The European Union’s executive branch said Thursday that the 27-nation bloc wasn’t out to undermine the United States, as U.S. President Donald Trump put it, but instead was the world’s largest free market that has created an economic windfall for American companies working on and with the continent. The bloc also added […]
BANGKOK (AP) 鈥� Asian shares were mostly lower on Thursday after U.S. stock indexes drifted to a mixed finish, with the S&P 500 closing just an iota higher. In Tokyo, the Nikkei 225 edged 0.2% higher to 38,198.96. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng sank 0.8% to 23,618.74, while the Shanghai Composite index shed 0.5% to 3,364.05. […]
MEXICO CITY (AP) 鈥� The Nicaraguan government has dismantled the last remaining checks and balances and was 鈥渟ystematically executing a strategy to cement total control of the country through severe human rights violations,” a panel of United Nations experts warned Wednesday. The report by human rights experts is the latest and strongest rebuke of the […]
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) 鈥� A preliminary economic agreement between Ukraine and the United States would ensure long-term U.S. involvement in rebuilding the country, but the deal leaves the question of security guarantees sought by Kyiv to future negotiations. According to the final version of the deal obtained by The Associated Press, the United States and […]
LONDON (AP) 鈥� U.K Prime Minister Keir Starmer flies to Washington on Wednesday after announcing a big increase in the British defense budget, an investment that he hopes will help persuade U.S. President Donald Trump to maintain support for Ukraine as Washington pushes to end the war. Though Starmer is likely to tout the trans-Atlantic […]
VIENNA (AP) 鈥� Iran has accelerated its production of near weapons-grade uranium as tensions between Tehran and Washington rise after the election of U.S. President Donald Trump, a report by the United Nations鈥� nuclear watchdog seen by The Associated Press on Wednesday showed. The report by the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency said that as […]
ROME (AP) 鈥� A U.S. air base in Italy went on lockdown Wednesday over an unspecified incident. Online posts described Naval Air Station Sigonella as being locked down 鈥渄ue to an ongoing situation.鈥� The posts didn’t elaborate. Calls to the U.S. Navy鈥檚 6th Fleet, which oversees European operations, weren’t answered and an email to the […]
BANGKOK (AP) 鈥� Asian shares were mixed on Wednesday, with Chinese markets gaining after Wall Street extended its losses on worries over inflation and tariffs. The rally in Chinese shares was led by gains for technology companies. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng jumped 2.5% to 23,619.24, while the Shanghai Composite index added 0.5% to 3,362.63. Hong […]
MEXICO CITY (AP) 鈥� Venezuelan migrants handed over to Mexico like it鈥檚 a U.S. immigration detention facility. Families from Central Asia flown to Panama and Costa Rica to await voluntary repatriation to their countries. Venezuelans from Guantanamo Bay handed off on a Honduran tarmac and returned to Caracas. It all sends the unmistakable message that […]
PARIS (AP) 鈥� The meeting between French President Emmanuel Macron and U.S. President Donald Trump was a spectacle of thigh-patting, prolonged hand-holding and other touch-heavy displays that have become a signature of their public appearances. It was another chapter in a relationship where physicality has often spoken louder than words as the two men have […]
BANGKOK (AP) 鈥� Shares sagged Tuesday in Asia as worries over U.S.-China trade friction weighed on the outlook for the region. Tokyo’s Nikkei 225 lost 1.1% to 38,336.73 after markets in Japan reopened from a holiday on Monday. In Hong Kong, the Hang Seng gave up 0.6% to 23,196.33, while the Shanghai Composite index edged […]
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) 鈥� The top U.S. Army officer for the Asia-Pacific region was in Cambodia on Monday in the latest visit by U.S. officials aimed at improving estranged ties between the two nations and their militaries. The two-day visit by a delegation led by Gen. Ronald P. Clark, commanding general of the United […]
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) 鈥� Authorities in Puerto Rico are searching for a U.S. tourist they say got lost in the dense tropical rain forest of El Yunque in the U.S. territory’s east. Police said in a statement that Abdur Rahman, 64, was hiking with a group when he became separated from them on […]
BANGKOK (AP) 鈥� U.S. President Donald Trump鈥檚 abrupt reversal of three years of American policy toward Ukraine has raised concerns China might become emboldened to push its territorial claim on Taiwan, though experts say Beijing is most likely in a wait-and-see mode right now to see how the situation in Europe plays out. In the […]
GENEVA (AP) 鈥� U.N. Secretary-General Ant贸nio Guterres says human rights are being 鈥渟uffocated鈥� around the world, lashing out at voices of division and anger who see them as a barrier to their quest for power and profit. In a speech to the Human Rights Council, Guterres decried Russia’s full-scale war in Ukraine that marked its […]
ROME (AP) 鈥� Pope Francis was resting Monday morning after a quiet night, on the 10th day of his hospitalization for a complex lung infection that has provoked the early stages of kidney failure, the Vatican said. The one-line statement didn鈥檛 say if Francis, 88, had woken up. 鈥淭he night passed well, the pope slept […]
BANGKOK (AP) 鈥� Asian shares were mixed on Monday after U.S. stocks fell sharply as reports showed the economy may be suffering as consumers and businesses fret over President Donald Trump鈥檚 policies. Markets were closed in Tokyo for a holiday. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index lost 0.6% to 23,348.82 and the Shanghai Composite index edged […]
